A tale of hope and struggle
Laila Lalami’s debut novel takes us into the hopes and fears of modern Morocco with subtlety and grace.
All posts tagged: Independent Bookshops
Reading challenges and independent bookshops: A mid-year update
Less news, more books: A mid-year report.
With one foot in fiction and the other in memoir
Annie Ernaux has produced “a deceptively simple book and a profoundly disarming one.”
The impossible sister
Beverly Cleary and Politics & Prose: Two classics!
A successful 2026 Independent Bookstore Crawl
A photo essay celebrating the 2026 DC Independent Bookstore Crawl.
The forgotten life and mysterious death of baseball’s first phenom
Thomas W. Gilbert’s newest book examines the life and mysterious death of baseball’s first hero.
A celebration of independent bookstores
April 25th: A day to make a big dent in my quest to visit all 29 DC-area independent bookshops!
Waiting for peace
In the third of the Maigret series, Georges Simenon writes of a crime where everything seems false.
Read when you’re happy, when you’re anxious, and in the moments in between
Ways to get closer to books.
A jewel of a novel
The first Elizabeth George novel was the treasure I uncovered on a recent visit to The Lantern Bookshop.
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